Sherman Uchill is a serial entrepreneur who started, built and sold various computer enterprises including a software development company, a computer time sharing company, a chain of retail computer stores and a private label personal computer company. Mr. Uchill was also a management consultant regarding

Steven J. Davidson MD, MBA, FACEP, FACPE

Steven J. Davidson MD serves as Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. A graduate of Temple University School of Medicine and the Wharton School of The University of the 1997 implementation of hospital

Andrew Barbash MD

Andrew Barbash is both a practicing Hospital based Neurologist and a nationally recognized resource in personal health records, mobile healthcare and communications. He is the Medical Director for the Stroke Program at Holy Cross Hospital in Maryland and the CEO of Apractis, Collaboration Partners.

Russ Cucina MD, MS

Russ Cucina is Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine and Center for Clinical and Translational Informatics, and Associate Medical Director of Information Technology for UCSF Medical Center, at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Cucina's research is in clinical

Michael J. Rice PhD, ARNP BC

Dr Rice is a Professor at the Washington State University College of Nursing, Spokane Washington where he teaches in the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Program. He received his Master's Degree in Psychiatric Nursing from the College of Nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha Nebraska in 1976.

William Scott Erdley DNS, RN

Scott Erdley, DNS, RN, is Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He has been involved with nursing and health informatics for more than 12 years. Dr. Erdley’s activities include the current owner of nrsing-l (the first exclusive listserv focused on nursing informatics) as well as serving on

Dr. Barbash trained at Northwestern University Medical School and completed his Neurology Residence at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Dr. Barbash led the development and deployment of the electronic medical record for Kaiser Permanente in the Mid-Atlantic States for 7 years before leaving to form Apractis. He served as the Vice President for Clinical Information Systems for the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group during that time and was a member of their Board of Directors. He helped bring the first mobile e-prescribing and web-based e-messaging to the region as well as overseeing the re-engineering of the specialty referral and communication process through the EMR.

He worked as an advisor to the Medical Records Institute in 2003-4 on Mobile Healthcare and has participated in many national and regional initiatives on privacy, mobile health, communications, consumer empowerment. Since 2004 he has been the Project Lead on the SOSRx outpatient medication safety initiative on the Personal Medication Record. As CEO of Apractis he has developed a core team of experts to leverage existing Web-centered communications and collaboration tools to help advance a support model for Personal Health Records and pragmatic clinical communications.

planning boards for nursing informatics and patient safety conferences. His research interests include patient safety, healthcare and nursing informatics, patient simulation in nursing education as well as mobile computing in nursing. Dr. Erdley is currently involved with collaborative research investigating patient safety in long-term settings as well as grass-roots efforts towards regional health information organizations. Dr Erdley was recently appointed as a co-director of the Advanced Studies Certificate program in Medical/Health Informatics at the School of Informatics, University at Buffalo.

human-computer interaction science with an emphasis on human factors and patient safety, decision support systems, automated clinical inference, sociotechnical aspects of clinical information systems, and knowledge representation and management. He was previously the physician lead for Stanford Hospital & Clinic's computerized provider order entry and multidisciplinary electronic documentation projects. He is informaticist to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Qualityʼs national patient safety resources AHRQ Patient Safety Network (psnet.ahrq.gov) and AHRQ Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web (webmm.ahrq.gov) and consults for a variety of clinical software and technology vendors, community hospitals, and academic centers regionally and nationally.

Dr. Cucina was resident and chief resident in Internal Medicine at Stanford University, holds a Master's degree in biomedical informatics from Stanford University, and an M.D. degree from the University of California, Davis.

wide PACS and led the 2002 implementation of a full Emergency Department (ED) EHR, the first in NYC. These and other efforts brought the hospital and MIS team the 1998 Computerworld-Smithsonian Award and the 2002 HIMSS Davies Award and brought him the 2001 Physician Executive Award of Excellence from Modern Physician and the American College of Physician Executives. He has published extensively on quality improvement and physician leadership development in hospital-based disciplines. He sees patients with emergency medicine residents in the ED at Maimonides

the strategic use of technology for competitive advantage, working with Fortune 500 firms, startups, and early stage ventures. His nonprofit experience includes service on the boards of trustees of the Goddard House Nursing Home and Assisted Living, Ten Acre Country Day School, Wellesley Community Children's Center Daycare, The Minuteman Foundation and the Alumni Committees at both Harvard and MIT. He has a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

He received his PH.D in Clinical Nursing Research from the University of Arizona College of Nursing in 1988 where he was a NRSA funded individual predoctoral instrumentation fellow. He also has a small private practice at the Suncrest Wellness Center which is located in Steven's County Washington, a federally designated medically underserved rural community. He holds a National Board Certification in Psychiatric Mental Health and is licensed as a Advanced Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in Washington. He is the P.I of 34 funded studies with funding sources ranging from NIH to private Foundations totaling over one million dollars and has 67 refereed publications, He has directed distance education projects on videoconferencing for clinical supervision, Web casts for rural mental health care education, Video streaming of nursing courses to rural communities, and is presently directing a project funded by Suffolk Community College\Symbol Technologies on the use of PDA's to enhance rural health care education in medially underserved areas. He has and continues to serve as a consultant to numerous national and international technology projects. He is a recipient of multiple national research awards ranging from: Outstanding Paper presented by a graduate student from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Delta Chi :Sigma Theta Tau Excellence in Research, Outstanding Clinical Research and Honorable mention Clinical Research for the Association of Women’s Health and Neonatal Nurses in 2001 & 2002, Grand Rounds Research Poster from the American Nurses Association and Winner of the 2002 EDUCAUSE Award for Excellence in Technology and the award for the Best Paper in Industrial and Corporate Training at the ). Education and information Systems Technologies and Applications (EISTA): International Institute of Informatics in 2003.

John Luo MD

John Luo, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry, where he is the Director of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychiatric Emergency Services. Dr. Luo is nationally

recognized as an expert on mobile technology in medicine, and he presents yearly at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. His courses on how to use a personal digital assistant have been a staple of the APA scientific program for over ten years. He has been the past-president of the American Association for Technology in Psychiatry, and now serves as its Gores Chair of Informatics Advocacy. He currently serves as the Use of Technology in Education work group chair for the Association for Academic Psychiatry. In addition, he writes a bi-monthly column called 'Tech Advisor' for Primary Psychiatry, and serves on the editorial advisory board of 'Medicine on the Net'. He has worked as a editorial advisory board of 'Medicine on the Net'. He has worked as a consultant for several healthcare technology firms, and he has been consultant for several healthcare technology firms, and he has been interviewed by numerous publications on his use of various technologies in medicine.

Dr. Luo completed his medical informatics fellowship at UC Davis Department of Psychiatry, where he implemented an electronic sign-out process using the Palm PDA. He was chief resident and resident at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Psychiatry, and received his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. During his residency, he was a recipient of fellowships including the Laughlin Fellowship of The American College of Psychiatrists and the APA/Center for Mental Health Services Minority Fellowship for his pioneering use of technology in medicine.

Sameer Bade MD, MSc

Dr. Sameer Bade, Chief Medical Technology Officer (CMTO) for MedStar Health, Inc, is a board certified internist who holds a Masters of Science in Biomedical Informatics from the Health Sciences Technology division of MIT and Harvard Medical School. As CMTO for MedStar, a seven hospital

system in Maryland and Washington DC and one of the largest integrated delivery networks in the mid-Atlantic area, Dr. Bade shares responsibility with other key Information Service executives for the selection, implementation, and support of a wide variety of technology, systems and software used by clinicians in the care of hospitalized and ambulatory patients. Additionally, Dr. Bade is deeply committed to the development of mobile and wireless technologies as an enabling tool for physicians and nurses.

Brenda Hage PhD, CRNP

Dr. Brenda Hage is a tenured, Associate Professor of Nursing and Director of Graduate Nursing Programs at Misericordia University. She developed and directed the Health Care Informatics Program at Misericordia University from 2004-2008. She is also an adjunct faculty member at the Virginia

Commonwealth University, School of Allied Health, Ph.D. program where she teaches Health Informatics. Dr. Hage received her Ph.D. in Health Related Sciences with a concentration in Gerontology from Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia campus. Dr. Hage is a nurse practitioner and is board certified in family practice, adult health, and nursing informatics. She completed a Biomedical Informatics course fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and serves on the editorial advisory board of Telehealth World Magazine. Her research interests include health literacy, health communication and health care informatics with a focus on aging in place. She is published in the areas of health care informatics, rehabilitation, and health literacy.

Cheryl D Parker RN, MSN, PhD

Dr. Parker has over 30 years experience in the healthcare industry including clinical nursing, management, nursing informatics, and education both corporate and academic. Among her many hats, she teaches at Walden University in the MSN program (Nursing Informatics Track) and is a

workgroup leader for the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) Initiative. She has worked in clinical system selection and implementation from both a facility and vendor perspective. She works at all levels of the nursing within a facility to ensure successful outcomes for the clinician and the organization.

She is a member of the American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA), CARING, Sigma Theta Tau, and Healthcare Informatics Systems Society (HIMSS) where she serves on the Nursing Informatics Taskforce and the forthcoming Clinical Informatics Newsletter.

She has been a contributor to the growing body of healthcare knowledge as a presenter and author. She received Associate, Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Nursing, completed a post-master’s certificate in Nursing Informatics, and completed her PhD in Education with a specialization in Training and Performance Improvement.

Benjamin Kanter MD FCCP

Benjamin Kanter MD FCCP is the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) for Palomar Pomerado Health (PPH) in San Diego, as well as a partner with Escondido Pulmonary Medical Group. Dr. Kanter is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Disease, and received special

certification in Critical Care. Dr. Kanter graduated from the University of Michigan with Distinction and Honors,after which he received his Medical degree and Internal Medicine training at Northwestern University in Chicago. He completed his post-doctoral studies in both Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine at the U.C.S.D. Medical center.

Dr. Kanter has chaired the departments of Medicine at Palomar Medical Center and Pomerado Hospital and is the past-Chief of Staff at Pomerado Hospital. He became the CMIO for PPH in 2006 and is a member of the executive management team. In this role, he is responsible for the development of clinical information systems. He remains clinically active, caring for patients in the critical care unit.

Howard Landa, MD did his surgical internship in 1983 at Bellevue Hospital in New York City where first experience in medical informatics consisted of creating and maintaining a patient lists in Lotus 1-2-He trained in Urology at the University of California-San Diego and completed a fellowship in

Pediatric Urology at Texas Children’s Hospital. After training Dr. Landa joined the Loma Linda University to practice pediatric urology and during his first year, he built a document management system to help the practice manage transcribed documents and became the Director of Medical Informatics for Loma Linda University Medical Center in 1996. He joined Hawaii Permanente Medical Group in Honolulu in 2001 as their pediatric urologist and to assist in IT projects. Initially he was involved in the optimization and roll out of “CIS,” their homegrown ambulatory EMR. Two years after the project began, a decision was make to abandoned these efforts and implement a vendor solution. Dr. Landa was one of the physician informatacists and became the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) in 2005. He was the physician lead for both Kaiser’s national downtime project and the operating room software; and under his leadership Kaiser Hawaii completed the EHR implementation, attaining HIMSS level 6 two months after inpatient go-live.

In 2009 he became the CMIO of the Alameda County Medical Center. He has been the Program Director for the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) since 1997; will be the president of the HIMSS Physician Community 2011-13, and was named one of the top 25 Clinical Informatacists in 2010.

Ron Ribitzky, MD

Ron is a Physician with C-level global experience in healthcare IT and life sciences informatics. He is the Founder/CEO of R&D Ribitzky, a boutique healthcare IT & life science informatics consulting and creative solutions firm. His engagements included all regions of the US, and 23 developed

and emerging-economy countries. Ron published, presented, and led workshops around the world in industry, public sector, and academia. Prior to making the transition to IT, Ron was a Flight Surgeon, Primary Care Physician in solo private practice, and Senior Resident in Pediatrics. His informatics career developed rapidly from Senior Programmer-Analyst to Director of Applications at Boston Children’s Hospital; CIO at UMass Medical Center; Senior Director, Medical Sales Support, VP Prototype Development, and VP Advanced Research at Eclipsys; Senior Healthcare Strategist, and World Wide Marketing Campaign Manager - Mobile Point of Care at Intel. He holds a US patent on component-based object-relational database infrastructure and user interface. Ron’s academic appointments included IBM Science Center, Weizmann Institute – Applied Mathematics, Harvard Medical School, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Emory University School of Public Health, Rockefeller Center for eHealth at Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), and Kigali Health Institute (KHI) in Rwanda. Ron earned his MD degree from the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University in Israel.

Curtis N. Dikes, RN, MSN, ACNP-BC, CLNC, NEA-BC

Curtis Dikes is the former Chief Nursing Officer and also Senior Advisor, Healthcare Transformation at Cisco Systems. He was the recognized clinical leader for nursing and other healthcare focused areas at Cisco.

He is an innovator in technology design and integration engendering optimal healthcare design and delivery, using his background as a clinician with expertise in technology and informatics, advanced practice nursing, operations and biomedical ethics. He has diverse experience as a clinician, operations manager and administrator in academic, non-profit, for-profit health care and vendor organizations. He has contributed to the development of technologically enhanced replicable hospital designs, a key health care technology innovation center, and strategic clinical technology and communications solutions and product designs in his many engagements.

Curtis has a Bachelors of Science degree in Nursing and Minor in Biomedical Ethics from University of Southern California, Los Angeles; a Masters of Science degree in Nursing as an Acute-Tertiary Care Nurse Practitioner (specializing in Vascular, Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery) from University of Pennsylvania, and a Post-Masters in Nursing and Healthcare Informatics from Duke University.

Melissa Barthold, MSN, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FHIMSS

Melissa Barthold is the Senior Clinical Solutions Strategist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, in Jackson, MS. She has more than 25 years of nursing practice, with more than 15 years practice as a nursing informaticist.

She obtained her Masters in Nursing Informatics in 1999, from Loyola University of Chicago's Niehoff School of Nursing, where she is currently completing her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. She has served on the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Taskforce and Committee, as the Chair of both the HIMSS Annual Conference Education Committee (2010) and the Distance Education Committee (2011). She has chaired the NI Taskforce's Standard Practices Forum for the last several years.

Melissa has served as adjunct faculty at Loyola University of Chicago and Barry University, Miami Shores, FL, as a faculty facilitator at Excelsior College and was appointed as adjunct faculty at Nova Southeastern University School of Nursing. She holds certifications from HIMSS (CPHIMS) and Board Certification from the American Nursing Credentialing Center, where she is serving her second term on the Content Expert Panel: Nursing Informatics.